Introduction: AUSTRALIA: THE WAY AHEAD

by Patrick Byrne and Brendan Rodway

News Weekly, June 13, 1998

The Special Edition of Newsweekly has been written by Pat Byrne and Brendan Rodway. It is written against the background of a decade and a half of economic rationalist policies eroding the productive heart of Australia and bringing us close to 'banana republic' status.

It is the product of years of research and writing by the late Mr Bob Santamaria and his staff.

So serious are the economic problems facing Australia that the economic sovereignty and social fabric of the once Lucky Country are now at stake. This was the warning of one of the worlds leading economic magazines, the London-based Economist not long after the earlier collapse of the Mexican economy.

News Weekly proposes a series of policies to overcome the problems Australia now faces. These Include:

Regaining Australia's economic sovereignty through a series of policies to rapidly bring down the foreign debt.